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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
91% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
77% 
External factors
44% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.90 s
File size
74.40 kB
Words
526
Media files
9
Number of links
33 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Discover Breathtaking Castles Hidden Throughout Europe - Exploring Castles
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 693 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Discover breathtaking castles throughout Europe. Uncover stories of kings and queens in English castles, and long-lost Scottish fortresses.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (853 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.exploring-castles.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionDiscover breathtaking castles throughout Europe. Uncover stories of kings and queens in English castles, and long-lost Scottish fortresses.
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article:modified_time2016-12-11T09:35:23+00:00
langen-gb
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_GB
og:typewebsite
og:titleDiscover Breathtaking Castles Hidden Throughout Europe - Exploring Castles
og:descriptionDiscover breathtaking castles throughout Europe. Uncover stories of kings and queens in English castles, and long-lost Scottish fortresses.
og:urlhttps://www.exploring-castles.com/
og:site_nameExploring Castles
og:imagehttps://i1.wp.com/www.exploring-castles.com/image-files/homepage_neuschwanstein.jpg?fit=1277%2C702&ssl=1
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og:image:height702
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 526 words. That's ok.
35.9% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
8 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 14 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...es/em_homepage-1.jpg?fit=1674,1674&ssl=1Author at a castle
...tanburgh_square.jpg?resize=640,640&ssl=1Dunstanburgh Castle
...epage_dunnottar.jpg?resize=640,640&ssl=1Dunnottar Castle
...mepage_burg_eltz.jpg?fit=1800,1800&ssl=1No alt attribute provided
...erphilly_castle.jpg?resize=640,640&ssl=1No alt attribute provided
...tle_machicolations.jpg?fit=300,223&ssl=1Machicolations – Defending a Medieval Castle with ‘Murder Holes’
...an_castle_panorama.jpg?fit=300,169&ssl=1Eilean Donan Castle: One of Scotland’s Most Famous Fortresses
...ood_drink_feasting.jpg?fit=300,169&ssl=1Medieval Food and Drink: Strange Foods and Gallons of Ale
/image-files/homepage_neuschwanstein.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Main Content
H2 Discover Breathtaking Castles Hidden Throughout Europe
H3 Discover Breathtaking Castles, Hidden Throughout Europe
H3 Ever dreamed of exploring some of the most incredible castles in Europe?
H3 Recently Updated….
H3 Castle Machicolations
H3 Eilean Donan Castle
H3 Medieval Food and Drink
H3 Share with friends!
H4 Castles of England
H4 Castles of Scotland
H4 European Castles
H4 Castles of Wales
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 3 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to content
/Subdomain Exploring Castles
/uk/Subdomain UK Castles
/uk/england/Subdomain England
/uk/scotland/Subdomain Scotland
/uk/wales/Subdomain Wales
/uk/northern_ireland/Subdomain Northern Ireland
/europe/Subdomain European Castles
/europe/germany/Subdomain Germany
/europe/ireland/Subdomain Ireland
/europe/spain/Subdomain Spain
/castle_life/Subdomain Life in a Castle
/castle_designs/Subdomain Castle Designs
/about/Subdomain About
/about/exploring_english_castles/Subdomain Buy the Book!
/about/contact/Subdomain Contact Me
/uk/england/Subdomain IMG-ALT Dunstanburgh Castle
A-TITLE Castles of England: Exploring England’s Greatest Castles
/uk/england/Subdomain Read More... about Castles of England: Exploring England’s Greatest Castles
/uk/scotland/Subdomain IMG-ALT Dunnottar Castle
A-TITLE Scotland Castles: The History of Castles across Rugged Terrain
/uk/scotland/Subdomain Read More... about Scotland Castles: The History of Castles across Rugged Terrain
/europe/Subdomain A-TITLE European Castles: A Collection of the Greatest Castles From All Over Europe
/europe/Subdomain Read More... about European Castles: A Collection of the Greatest Castles From All Over Europe
/uk/wales/Subdomain A-TITLE Welsh Castles: Photos & History About The Great Castles In Wales
/uk/wales/Subdomain Read More... about Welsh Castles: Photos & History About The Great Castles In Wales
/castle_designs/machicolations/Subdomain IMG-ALT Machicolations – Defending a Medieval Castle with ‘Murder Holes’
/castle_designs/machicolations/Subdomain Read More... about Machicolations – Defending a Medieval Castle with ‘Murder Holes’
/uk/scotland/eilean_donan_castle/Subdomain IMG-ALT Eilean Donan Castle: One of Scotland’s Most Famous Fortresses
/uk/scotland/eilean_donan_castle/Subdomain Read More... about Eilean Donan Castle: One of Scotland’s Most Famous Fortresses
/castle_life/medieval_food_drink/Subdomain IMG-ALT Medieval Food and Drink: Strange Foods and Gallons of Ale
/castle_life/medieval_food_drink/Subdomain Read More... about Medieval Food and Drink: Strange Foods and Gallons of Ale
/about/contact/Subdomain Contact
/about/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.facebook.com/share...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Share on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/share...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook
A-TITLE Share on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/share...New window Nofollow External Subdomain A-TITLE Share on Facebook
/about/privacy-policy/New window Subdomain Trivial anchor text
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.exploring-castles.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.90 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (74 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
dateWed, 14 May 2025 11:53:27 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cache-enabledTrue
link<https://www.exploring-castles.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://www.exploring-castles.com/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/1419>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json", <https://wp.me/P86QXk-mT>; rel=shortlink
x-httpd1
host-header8441280b0c35cbc1147f8ba998a563a7
x-proxy-cacheHIT
content-encodingbr
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 13 referring domains.
This page only has 36 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 12 different ip addresses.
This page is referenced by wikipedia.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

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Castles75%Check
Discover Breathtaking Castles69%Check
Exploring Castles67%Check
Discover66%Check
Breathtaking66%Check
Discover Breathtaking Castles Hidden66%Check
Europe65%Check
Exploring62%Check
English castles58%Check
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